Davos 2025: Will Trump's 'golden age' pay off?
Power Play
POLITICO
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is presented by IBM. |
| 0:03.0 | AI is set to revolutionize the world, but IBM says more collaboration and investment in open-source models is needed to help society innovate even faster and more inclusively. |
| 0:13.0 | AI can be built in a transparent, ethically compliant, and safe way. |
| 0:19.0 | That still involves participation from more than just a handful of companies. |
| 0:24.4 | Here from IBM's chief privacy officer next Monday on a special episode of PowerPlay. |
| 0:31.9 | Is America headed for a new golden age, or will Donald Trump's promise falter? |
| 0:38.0 | And where does that leave the quest for prosperity across the Atlantic? |
| 0:42.4 | That's a question on the lips of many economists and business leaders and politicians all |
| 0:47.0 | around me mingling here at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Welcome to PowerPlay, Politico's interview podcast where we talk to some of the most compelling voices making the weather. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Anne McElvoy, if you haven't already. |
| 1:06.0 | Please take a moment to follow this podcast, then you won't miss an episode from us here in |
| 1:11.1 | Davos or when I come back down to earth beyond. |
| 1:14.9 | And my guest today are big beasts in the jungle of economics. Ken Rogoff is Professor at Harvard, |
| 1:21.8 | chess grandmaster and formerly chief economist at the IMF. Joining him and me is Hugh Van Steenis, |
| 1:29.4 | who's been senior advisor to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney a few years ago, |
| 1:34.2 | now vice chair at the consultancy, Oliver Wyman. |
| 1:37.9 | Ken Rogoff and Hugh Van Steers welcome both to Power Play. Hi, Ken. |
| 1:42.0 | Greetings. |
| 1:42.7 | And Hugh, first time. |
| 1:44.3 | Delight to be here. Now, Ken. Greetings. And you, first time. Delighted to be here. |
| 1:45.9 | Now, Ken, let's look to that promise of Donald Trump's, the golden age of America. |
| 1:51.6 | You have praised the economic policies in Trump's first term to a degree, especially deregulation, tax reforms. |
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